Join us for our monthly advisory meeting to meet with other OER leaders at community colleges and hear about the Math OER Adoption Program at Housatonics Community College in Connecticut

1. CCCOER Advisory Meeting
Oct 21, 11:00 am Pacific
1-888-886-3951 (passcode:931366)

2. Collaborate Window Overview
Audio & Video
Participants
Chat
Tech Support available at:
1-760-744-1150 ext. 1537, 1554

3. Agenda
• Happy Open Access Week (Oct 19-24)
– http://openaccessweek.org
• Welcome New Members
• How does CCCOER help you?
• Announcements …
• OER Math program at Housatonic College
• Open Discussion Time

4. Welcome New Members

5. Introductions
• Your Name
• Institution
• Role
• How does CCCOER help you?
Other help needed?
We might share your news via Social
Media, so please share what you want
others to know.

6. Announcements
• Senator Durbin’s Affordable College Textbook
Bill re-introduced two weeks ago.
– https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-
bill/2176?q={%22search%22%3A[%22%22s2176%22%22]}&resultInde
x=1
• California’s Affordable Textbook Act signed last
week.
– http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_i
d=201520160AB798
• New Research published on impact of open
textbook adoption on learning outcomes of
post-secondary students.
– http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12528-015-9101-x

7. OEC Global 2016
Collaboration Through Convergence
Where: Krakow, Poland
When: 12-14 April, 2016
Organized by OEC and AGH
University of Science and
Technology.
http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/
Tracks:
• Integration of Open Practices
• Collaboration
• Open Education as Strategy
• Research to Advance Open Education
• Open Education Initiatives in Europe
Proposals Due: Nov 16, 2015

8. OER Math Program
• Jennifer Nohai-Seaman
– Assistant Math Professor

9. Open Education
Resource(OER)
The Housatonic Math Story
By Michael La Barbera, Jennifer Nohai-Seaman, and
Marina Philips
Oct 21st 2015

10. Timeline : Spring 2013
• Spring 2013 in response to PA12-40 the BOR created a
committee of Community college Math faculty to
redesign the Intermediate Algebra(MAT137) and
Elementary Algebra(MAT095) curriculum to align with
the Common Core.

11. Spring 2104
• Michael’s research lead to open source material including
Scottsdale Community College’s (SCC) workbook and
MyOpenMath (MOM).
• Marina’s Spring break trip to Scottsdale, AZ to see her
son, and visit SCC Math Department Chair, Donna
Gaudet.

12. Mana from heaven..SCC
• SCC created creative common licensed workbooks for
Elementary Algebra and Intermediate Algebra. The
workbooks aligned to the common core and paired with
a free online Math platform called MyOpenMath
(MOM).
• Just what we were looking for………

13. Fall 2014 Piloted OER material
• 3 sections of MAT137T
• 1 section of MAT095I
• Cost of OER material MAT095 $20
• Cost OER material for MAT137 $30
• Cost of Pearson text $250 /260
• Each student saved $230

14. Spring 2015
• Edited Intermediate Algebra book ver 1.0
• Offered 3 sections of MAT137T, one regular section
MAT137.
• Offered 2 sections of MAT095I
• Total students: 150 used OER materials.

15. Summer 2015/Fall 2015
• Summer: 3 sections of MAT137, 1 section of MAT 137T
(4 sections)
• Ran workshops for adjuncts from HCC and sister
community colleges .
• Fall 2015: 4 MAT137T sections, 7 MAT 137 sections and
12 MAT095I sections. All together: 23 sections !
• Intermediate Algebra Book to version 1.1

16. Cost Savings to the State
• Approximately 70% of students are using financial aid.
• During Fall 2015 semester, OER saves the state ($230 per
student, 403 student, 70% of 575):
MAT 095/MAT 137: $92,690 in one semester!
From Fall 2014 to Fall 2015, OER saved the state ($230 per
student, 620 students, 70% of 885):
$142,600

17. Initial success rates of OER verse
Non OER
Fall 2014 OER Non OER
MAT095I 54.5%(n=22) 58.3%(n=295)
MAT137 45.9%(n=74) 44.6%(n=616)
Spring 2015
MAT095I 47.3%(n=19) 49%(n=196)
MAT137 36.2%(n=58) 40.5%(n=603)

18. Future Goals
• Continue to track cost savings to students and student
success in OER vs. Non-OER sections.
• Continue to update existing Intermediate Algebra OER
course.
• Expand the use of OER to the College Algebra course.
• If you’re interested in joining the Sustainable Education
Resource (SER) committee, please contact Mike,
mlabarbera@hcc.commnet.edu.

19. Fall 2015 Webinars
2nd Wed, 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST)
Oct 14: OER and Access with BCcampus and CU PhET
Oct 19: Adaptive Learning with Carnegie Mellon’s Simon
and Open Learning Initiative.
Nov 2: ePortfolios for Learning and Open Source
Platforms.
Dec 2: OER and Competency-based learning
Archived webinars available at
http://oerconsortium.org and OEC youtube channel

20. Advisory Meetings
Fall 2015
What topics would you like to consider?
Email: oclquill.west@gmail.com to share topic
ideas.

21. Fall Conferences
• Open Access Week, Oct 19-23
• Educause, Oct 27-30, Indianapolis
• STEMTech, Nov 1-4, Phoenix
• WCET 2015, Nov 11-13, Denver
• Open Ed 2015, Nov 18-20, Vancouver, BC
• AMATCY, Nov 19-22, New Orleans
• eLearning 2016, Feb 14-17, Phoenix, AZ
• OEC Global 2016, Apr 12-14, Kracow, Poland

22. Conferences
Are you presenting on open education at any
conferences, webinars, events that aren’t listed
here? Please share!
Contact Christie Fierro (cfierro@tacomacc.edu) to
let us know. We like to keep up with what our
members are doing.

23. Quill West:
Cynthia Alexander:
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Thank you for coming!!
Nov 18 Twitter Mtg
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